Woman&#39;s foundation garment



Feb. 24, 1942. s. R ICHMAN 2,274,382

WOMAN S FOUNDATION GARMENT Filed March 4, 1941 Figure 3 and Patented Feb-24, 1942 2,214,382 WOMAN'S FOUNDATION GARMENT Sidney Richman, New York, N. Y., assign- The Patricia Petticoat 00., Inc., New 2. N. 2., a corporation of New York Application March 4, 1941, Serial No. 381,649

1 Claim. (on. 240) This invention relates to womens'foundation garments and has for its object to provide a separable garment that may be worn as one garment or the individual sections of which may be worn separately.

The invention is particularly applicable to that garment known as a slip, and which usually is a one-piece garment depending from the shoulders to below the knees.

My improved construction of garment provides such a slip, the upper and lower sections of which, if desired, can be worn separately, thus permitting an interchanging of sections if it is desired to have a slip the upper and lower sections of which are of different colors or materials.

In general use the upper section is usually, by preference, of a light color material, and while generally the petticoat section is also of light color there are times when it is desirable to wear a petticoat of darker, or even of heavier material, and my invention provides a means whereby different combinations of colors or weights of material may be quickly and economically assembled.

Further, my invention provides three separate and distinct garments each wearable as desired, to wit, a camisole, a petticoat, and a camisole slip.

Further details of the constructions of my garment will be described in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in elevation showing the upper and lower sections-of a slip apart and in their relative position before being joined .together;

Figure 2 shows the two as one garment; V

Figure 3 is an enlarged view of the waist line of the combined garment showing the manner 0 combining the two sections;

Figure 4 is a cross section on the line H of sections joined together Figure 5 shows an adaptation of my invention applied to a ruiile for attachment to the bottom of my garment.

Referring to the drawing, II is the upper secto my invention these two sections are constructed as separate garments. To the bottom of tion of a slip, which has the usual shoulder straps. a ,II is the lower or petticoat section. According sponding strip of elastic beading or fagoting I 4 to the top of the lower orpetticoat section i2. Each of these sections as so constructed is wearable as a separate garment, the elastic waistline on each causing either garment to cling comfortably about the waist of the'wearer without the aid of any gathering ribbon or other fastening means.

Toassemble these two garments into a comwork beading or fagoting i3 and H of the two garments by placing the strip of one garment over that of the other, as at l5, and threading through the joined openwork a suitable ribbon i6, thus holding the two garments together as one.

In Figure 5 I have shown a further utilization of my invention for the purpose of lengthening the petticoat or slip. With evening gowns it is usually desired to wear a foundation garment that will be correspondingly longer and have a ruille or other ornamental bottom, and for this purpose I have shown in Figure 2 a garment having attached to the bottom of the petticoat section a strip of non-elastic fagoting I1, and in Figure 5 I have shown a ruflie having a similar strip of non-elastic fagoting attached to the upper edge, as at l8. For attaching the ruflle to the petticoat the same procedure is followed as in attaching the upper and lower sections of the slip together, namely, the strips of fagoting l1 and While I have describedmy invention as applied to a slip, it will be obvious that it can be applied to other foundation garments, such as brassieres, and to outer garments of light weight. enabling an unlimited combination of separate garments of different colors.

What I claim is:

A separable undergarment comprising an upper section and a petticoat section, each of said sections having at its adjacent edge a strip of elastic fagoting for engagement with each other and a ribbon for retaining said sections together.

SIDNEY RICHMAN. 

